Thank you Sandra, for illustrating exactly how most people in this country misunderstand the tax system. Allow me to explain: £27k tax is just the start. Add NI, the personal allowance taper (60% effective rate between £100-125k), child benefit clawback, £15k childcare, £18k

This is peak clown world. On LBC this morning they pointed out the ridiculous contradiction: A 5-year-old is apparently old enough to decide they’re the opposite gender but a 15-year-old is too young to use social media. The people in charge of this country have completely

Since I left the civil service (and became a random tweeter) I’ve often thought about this. The sad truth is that Whitehall actively disincentivises the development of deep subject matter expertise in policy. It’s simply not considered good, or even ‘appropriate’, to do the

One of the reasons that the UK has such a severe housing problem is that several goods – healthcare, major highways, railway stations and lines – are provided inelastically by central government, so new homes cause genuine competition over them. The historic way to solve this in

I had a chest infection, the doctor told me I don’t, did an X-ray, then gave me ANOTHER PERSON’S X-ray and told me “see, you don’t” They told me I was just dehydrated, have me IV fluids, but mistakenly connected someone else’s IV bag with god knows what.

Maria Caulfield CBE In addition, the worker does not get free transport, winter fuel payments, free prescriptions, free dental treatment and a whole host of discounts. No one is saying the poorest pensioners should not be supported. But questioning the triple lock is NOT attacking pensioners, just

We built a 3D interactive map of every reported crime in London. 2020 → 2026. Nine categories from Knife Crime to Shoplifting. Every borough, every street, every outcome... The official police data exists. Nobody's rendered it properly. So we did. Explore 👇

I've been obsessed with the vast and untapped potential of civilian nuclear power at sea forever. I'm now the Chief Nuclear Officer at an exciting new company bringing nuclear power to maritime applications. There's much to do, so I'm looking for passionate and highly-skilled

"China is leading the US in 66 out of 74 advanced technologies." - James Kynge, Fellow at Chatham House In other words, China doesn't steal US technology, because the US is far behind China. Why would modern man steal flint from a caveman?

four days ago Kimi dropped K2.6 and I told you this was the beginning.. now DeepSeek just dropped V4 using Kimi's Muon optimizer in the training stack.. 1.6 trillion parameters.. open-source.. 1M context.. rivaling every closed model on earth. read that again.. two Chinese labs

This is a genuine point worthy of debate, Tom Harwood. The reason I stopped thinking like this — and I’m actually a US dual national — is that I stopped believing the US party system was going to “return to normal.” The Republican machine and media have near deified Trump for a

How ‘free markets’ work in practice. Very rare to see the thinking of the ‘political west’, aka American empire, spelt out so clearly.

One thing the political class is seemingly oblivious of is that fact that the rest of the population from cleaners to brain surgeons is highly regulated and economically coerced in ways that they are not and would scream blue murder if they had to be.

Years of right-wing governments have literally stolen years of good health from your life. Men’s healthy life expectancy is now 60 years, down from 63. Women’s is also 60, down from 64. We’re the most obese nation, with mental health and chronic health issues skyrocketing. We

the most dangerous person to Google isn't OpenAI or Apple.. It's a guy named Raymond Hill who works alone, takes no money, and built the world's best ad blocker Google tried buying him. He said no Google tried waiting him out. He kept shipping Google changed Chrome's rules

We banned content claiming Zionists run the world or control the media. Read that again… 🤡

THE JOURNALIST WHO BROKE CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA WAS THANKED WITH A £1 MILLION LEGAL BILL Carole Cadwalladr Carole Cadwalladr exposed one of the biggest political scandals in modern British history. Cambridge Analytica. Brexit dark money. Possible Russian influence in UK democracy.

Adele Weir was a Home Office researcher and was embedded in to Rotherham. She made a report naming the people who were grooming children there and sent it to the Home Office and the Chief Constable which was ignored and kept secret. As a result Adele was: Berated by a senior

Kyle Chan If I knew and wrote about it 15+ years ago, what's our govt's excuse for doing nothing in that time? x.com/ideafaktory/st…

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